Covered pen, pencil, &amp;c.



PATENTED SEPT. 5, 1905.

A. E. ROSE.

COVERED PEN, PENCIL, 6L0. APPLIOATION FILED DEG.16,1904.

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ALBERT E. ROSE, OF BROOKLYN, NElV YORK.

COVERED PEN, PENCIL, 800.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 5, 1905.

Application filed December 16,190 Serial No. 237,050.

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Be it known that I, ALBERT E. Rose, a citizen of the United States, residing at 363 Fulton street, Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Covered Pens, Pencils, &:c., of which the following is a specification.

This invention is designed to obviate many of the inconveniences and annoyances incident to the use of pens, (ordinary or fountain pens,) pencils, and articles of like nature. Among the defects of such manually-operative instruments are those due to the smoothness and hardness of the surface grasped by the hand, which oftentimes causes the instrument to slip in the lingers and prevents it from being held safely in place when slipped behind the ear of the user, in cold weather also the lingers having difficulty in grasping the instrument. The present invention contemplates the elimination of such defects and the provision of the article with a surface agreeable to the touch by combining therewith a covering or coat of textile or knitted fabric fitting over the body portion of the instrument.

The present article of manufacture therefore embraces a pen, pencil, or analogous mantially-operative instrument having that portion adapted to be grasped by the fingers covered with a more or less tightly fitting tube of textile or knitted fabric. [do not deem it essential that either end of such tube should be fixed to the corresponding end of the article; but ordinarily one or both ends are so fixed.

In the drawings accompanying the present specification, Figure 1 is an elevation of a penholder embodying my present improvements. Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig. 1, the keepers or ferrules at the ends of the article being omitted to show the tube ends closed over the ends of the body portion and part of the tube coat being broken away. Fig. 3 is an elevation of a pencil, showing one end of the tube-coat secured by a ferrule or a keeper to the pencil, the other end of the tubecoat being loose.

Similar characters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures.

The present invention is applicable generally to the class of articles hereinbefore mentioned and whether the penholder, pencil, &c., be circular in cross-section or angular or whether it be cylindrical or tapering longitudinally.

In carrying the present improvements into effect the article of manufacture, whether it comprises a penholder, such as that designated by 2, or a pencil, such as that designated by 3, is fitted with a coat or envelopingtube T of textile or woven fabric. Thus provided the article can be readily grasped by the fingers of the hand, presenting thereto a soft yielding surface agreeable to the touch and not likely to slip. Tube lengths of proper dimension may be cut from a tubular fabric having a diameter, preferably, that will enable it to fit snugly over the body of the penholder, pencil, &c. If a tube length is used as a covering for a penholder, the longitudi nally-taut length may be held in place by first tying the ends of the tube together at the ends of the holder, as indicated in Fig. 2, after which the end ferrules or keepers 5 5 maybe slipped over and fastened in place. Keeper 5 here constitutes the pen-point socket. in the case of a pencil-coveringone end may only be secured in place by a keeper 5", (here constituting a rubber-holding attachment.) The other end of the tube length is left free, permitting the reduction of the length of the pencil in sharpening. If desired, both ends of the tubular fabric may be left free.

Some of the ad vantages of the present in vention have already been referred to. Among others may be mentioned that of preventing the accidental slippingof the pencil, &c., from the pocket.

Having described my invention, l claim- 1. As a new article of manufacture, an article of the class described over which is litted a length of a tube of woven or knitted textile fabric, said tube being of substantially the same diameter as that of the article.

2. As a new article of manufacture, an article of the class described over which is fitted a length of a tube of woven or knitted textile fabric, said tube being of substantially the same diameter as that of the article, combined with means for securing the tube length to the article.

3. As a new article of manufacture, an article of i the class described over which is fit- In testimony whereofIhave signed myname ted a length of a tube of Woven or knitted to this specification in the presence of tWO subtextile fabric of substantially the same diame-- scribing Witnesses. ter as that of the article and one of Whose I 5 ends is compressed by a binding-string com- Witnesses:

bined with a ferrule securing the tube length LILLIAN PERRY, at the end to the article. 7 W CHAS. H. DAVIDS.

ALBERT E. ROSE. 

